Worship, the Penti’ Way
Some wee nuggets (in some sense of the word) from Brendon and Cathie Clancy:
“Performance leaves you empty, ministry leaves you full”
Ummm, not my experience, but okay. I guess you’d know… how empty are you feeling right now?
“The higher you go in praise, the deeper you can go in worship”
Don’t even get me started…
“While I worship, I’m seeing with my ‘eyes of faith’ the result I want”
While I try and worship, someone up the front is trying to make their daydreams reality, through sheer force of will. Don’t rupture anything!
“I’m not moved by what I feel,
I believe that Christ is real”
— words to a nice, heart-tugging song.
Sorry, I’m just not grasping how this works. I’m singing a song written to express emotion, about how I’m ignoring emotion? I live in the reality-based community I’m afraid.
Also, I’m bemused that Penti’s are as good at taking the piss of themselves as we are (of them). I think the main difference is that they mock something, but then carry right on doing what they were mocking, thus giving us observers a deliciously tasty piece of irony. The more conservative at least have the sense (generally) to mock only what they’ve actually stopped doing.